The game Apples to Apples is a card game that uses nouns and adjectives. The nouns are on the red cards and the adjectives are on the green cards. The red cards contain various words which include common items, historical figures, and popular culture. Because it uses popular culture, the game has to be updated every so often.

Each player gets seven red cards and one person is the judge. The judge flips the green card. Each player excluding the judge places a card that best fits the adjective and draws a red card. After everyone is done, the judge takes all the cards and picks out the best choice to his/her opinion. The owner of the best card takes the green card. The whole process repeats itself with another person being the judge, either clockwise or counter-clockwise. The first person who has enough green cards wins. The amount of green cards needed is based on how many players there are. For example, the amount that I was playing with only needed 3 green cards to win since there were 9 of us.

The time it took for someone to win was short. The game ended in about 10 minutes. Someone was able to rack up 3 green cards while most did not even have 1 yet. This game felt like it should take longer. I noticed that the person who took the green card usually put down something very witty or funny with funny winning more. One example is when we decided to use a game play variation where 2 green cards are placed and a red card has to match both. The green cards were “One-of-a-kind” and “Average.” The winning card ended up being, “Your Ex.”